The Labor enquirer., 1887-06-25
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winded letter signed ID. r. 8. D. A. 49,"
which was intended as demolishing at
tack upon me, though the closest scrutiny
failed to show that II charged me with
any misdoing; the only crime laid to me
being the capitalistic parrot cry Of. "An-
archist.r 1t is not necessary for me to
repeat for the hundreth time that am
not an Anarchist; for those whose homes
ty makes their opinion worth attention
know that am not and never have been.
The ID. R. s. D. s2" who had not the
manhood to put his name to bis swashy
condensation Of ignorance, is a whelp by
the name Of Corbin. He is the bulky end
of the pair OF illiterate confidence sharks
who rob the workers of the Union Pacific
railroad Of about $1,000 a year.
have lashed that pair of sneaking ours
on the floor Of the general assembly and
in Denver, as I do four legged whelps
that annoy me, and that letter was simply
the yell of the blistered brutes.
Who are these would d-be-heard- of-vulgar-
isms! What have had to do with them
in the pasts Let me tell you little
story:
On the morning of May l, 1884, the
poverty editor Of a Labor paper
stood at his case "setting up" his paper.
There was tap at the door and five men
entered. They announced that they we're
a committee sent by the striking employees
Of the Union Pacific company to the pow
erty-stricken editor to see II he could help
them to defeat the company's attempt to
reduce wages 20 per cent; notice of such
reduction had been posted that morning
in the shops. There was not the slightest
resemblance to any kind Of organization
among the employees nor had there ever
been.
Well, TO make long story short, for
the present, the p.-s. editor laid down his
stick" at once and when he took it up
again, some weeks after, the Union Pacific
employees -12,000 in number-had won
their fight of May !, and subsequent
skirmish, August 10, and the men on the
road we're well organized. The p.-s. edi-
tor had gone to Omaha on both occasions
and in the lions den--the general offices
of the company-had wrestled with and
downed the railroad magnates. He did
this alone though not an employe of the
company tongue-tied employe was sent
along to show that the p.-s. editor was
acting for the men.
The unassuming editor soon found that
he was "hero," and was lionized by the
U. Pl men, banquet upon one of his re-
turns from Omaha and such things being
the order.
He worked on and helped to perfect the
organization Of the railroad men Of the
west-that work Is part of the history
of the Knights Of Labor-.and central
organization with headquarters at Denver
was made by the U. P. men. Two men
who had been taught the A B G Of the
economic movement land that is all they
now know we're elevated to positions of
trust and profit. One of these, Tom
Neasham, "a foreigner" was lifted out of
the pit of the round-house, taken from the
shackles Of his boss, reared from the murk
of dense ignorance and dirty shirt and
placed upon an official PEDESTAL; the sun
smote the pedestal, people looked that way
for an instant and saw the man who sat
there. Soch is the history of his great
ness.
Another man, named j. n. Corbin, a
scab at heart, and one who up to the first
of May had dehantly opposed Labor or
ganizations, showed a disposition to make
amends for his past and to work; and he
was elevated to the second position and
given $1,000 a year to keep him out of the
poor house. The poverty-stricken editor
labercd with him in examining the primer
Of Laborology into his thick skull. More,
the p..s. editor wrote his resolutions of
esteem" to the manager of the U. p. com
pany; more, this same editor fought like
tiger when the manager wanted to sim
gle out Corbin and victimize him, and let
all the others return to work.
While the editor was poor in coin and
merchandise, yet he was rich in the esteem
Of his fellow men, and the ungrateful ours
that had been taken by him from the
pound and provided with FURNISHED ac-
coutremcnts, became jealous and wished
to supplant in the affections of the Npeo-
Pile the man who had given their names a
significance. II is the eIempliiication
of the words of the wise man who said,
Worse than a serpent's tooth is a
thankless child
But they have failed, and such ingrates
are sure TO ultimately fail, and when in
heavens good time justice sits enthroned
over all, such as they will be hurled to the
darkest pit of the blacklist hell-obscurit
Reader, you know without telling that
Corbin Is the coward who signs himself